Listed Building record MDO13860 - Gable Cottage, West Street, Fontmell Magna

A single-storey house with attics, built in the fifteenth century and of cruck construction. Later additions and alterations, including the insertion of floors, have been made. The walls of the building are timber-framework with rubble, and the roof is thatched. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

GABLE COTTAGE (86581688), with walls of timber-framework and with a thatched roof, is of 15th-century origin and consisted originally of a single-storeyed three-bay range with the roof supported on two cruck trusses. In c. 1600 a chimneystack was built close to the W. cruck, and upper floors were inserted in all three bays. In c 1800 a bay was added on the E., and the S. front of the original range was modified, the original timber-framework in the lower storey being replaced by rubble, and a large window being inserted in the upper storey. <1>

Gable Cottage. Grade II. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 24 (Monograph). SDO99.

(11) Gable Cottage (86581688), with walls of timber-framework and with a thatched roof, is of 15th-century origin and consisted originally of a single-storeyed three-bay range with the roof supported on two cruck trusses. In c. 1600 a chimneystack was built close to the W. cruck, and upper floors were inserted in all three bays. In c. 1800 a bay was added on the E., and the S. front of the original range was modified, the original timber-framework in the lower storey being replaced by rubble, and a large window being inserted in the upper storey. Inside, the two original crucks have cambered collars, and the E. cruck retains arched braces resting on projecting tongues, integral with the crucks. In the E. bay of the original range the inserted floor of c. 1600 rests on two stop -chamfered beams. The corresponding floor has been removed from the middle bay, but the ends of the 17th-century joists remain.

<2> DOE (HHR), 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District, 27 (Scheduling record). SDO17732.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205995 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 22 2024 8:07PM